Sheriff Spencer Arrowood's testimony helped convict a Tennessee youth for the slaying of two hikers; now twenty years later he is invited to the execution. Spencer, recovering from a wound, is obsessed with understanding what happened in a century-old murder case which resulted in the first hanging of a woman in North Carolina, and finds parallels between tne two cases.

"...another winner that thriller, mystery and general fiction readers alike will relish." - Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Arvin weaves together disparate elements into a coherent and often thought-provoking tale." - Pittsburgh Tribune "Intriguing...clever. A-" - Entertainment Weekly "A suspenseful story line that takes hold of the reader from the very beginning to the book's close." - New York Law Journal "(BLOOD OF ANGELS is) the kind of...

The family of a murder victim, a journalist opposed to capital punishment and the man convicted of the killing find their lives bound together as the hour of execution approaches, while the person who knows the truth about the murder waits to plunge them into an abyss of terror.

"Peter Hale is a young attorney struggling to make his own mark in his father's venerable law firm when he is presented with the opportunity of a lifetime. During the trial of a multimillion-dollar case, Peter's father, the lead counsel, suffers a heart attack and asks Peter to move for a mistrial until he's feeling better. Peter decides this is his only chance to prove to his father that he is the terrific lawyer he knows himself to be, and he chooses...

An Ohio death row inmate, convicted of killing his 16-year-old girlfriend when he was 17 years old, dies of heart disease. Six years later, the police arrest a Canadian expatriate living in Sweden for repeatedly kicking a drunken man in the head. A cantankerous Det. Supt. Ewert Grens of the Stockholm police discovers that the foreigner in their jail cell is a convicted murderer, the same death row inmate who supposedly died in America six years earlier....

In "Everywhere that Mary Went," fledgling lawyer Mary DiNunzio uses her wits to catch a killer, and in "Final Appeal," a single mom risks her life and teams up with a law clerk to investigate her boss's murder.